Alice Kuipers Quotes

I wish I had more time for… exercise. As a working mum, I find that I make time for my son and for writing but exercise is sliding.

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• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Focus

• There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Die
  • Day

• I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Problems

• I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Star

• Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Character
  • War
  • Peace

• Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Remember
  • You
  • Famous

• Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Government

• Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Change
  • Wall
  • President

• I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Better

• People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Effort
  • Language

• I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Believe
  • Reality

• Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

  

  Gary Becker
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Together
  • Ideas

• It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Speak
  • Knowing
  • Pause

• Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Power
  • Food
  • Respect

• I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Better
  • Now

• Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Different
  • Me
  • Look

• I have three sons, as different from each other as any three humans could be but connected by their shared love of Guitar Hero. I'm lucky to be married to a man I can call my soulmate without any irony whatsoever.

  

  Christina Baker Kline
  • Different
  • Hero
  • Soulmate

• I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I love twins stories.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Stories
  • I Love
  • Twins

• The time has long since come for truth, transparency, and talks in every sector of society, including media, advertisement and entertainment. We can challenge each other, gain understanding, and create a more just, humane, and peaceful world.

  

  Bernice King
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely.

  

  Prince
  • Time
  • Skin

• I wish I had more time for… exercise. As a working mum, I find that I make time for my son and for writing but exercise is sliding.

  

  Alice Kuipers
  • Time
  • Exercise
  • Mum